Five Questions and Five Answers for Thyroid Surgery

Patients with various thyroid diseases may encounter situations requiring surgery: Hyperthyroidism: If goiter is especially obvious, Or drug therapy is ineffective and iodine 131 therapy cannot be carried out. Or hyperthyroidism is caused by thyroid adenoma… it requires surgery to remove part of the thyroid gland, To treat hyperthyroidism. Thyroid nodules: If the nodules are compressed to surrounding organs, or the nodules tend to be malignant, or the nodules are complicated with hyperthyroidism and drug therapy is ineffective… thyroid surgery is also required. Thyroid cancer: If thyroid cancer is confirmed by thyroid color Doppler ultrasound and fine needle biopsy, surgery must be carried out as soon as possible. The following are the five most common problems encountered by thyroid patients Read More …

[Throat] Pain, neck pain, which thyroid diseases may be at fault?

Aunt Wang has been very upset recently. She has a fever and [throat] pain after catching a cold. After taking cold medicine for several days, she has not improved but worsened. When I went to the hospital for an examination, it turned out that it was not a simple cold, but an inflammation of the thyroid gland. Aunt Wang thought that the [throat] pain was actually the pain of the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is located in front of the neck and below Adam’s apple People with thyroid pain are not uncommon, some are dull pain, some are severe pain, some are short-term pain, some are chronic pain… Because there are many causes of thyroid pain, the pain is Read More …